In the meantime during training exercises, Hank McCoy was working on a cure (using Raven""s DNA) o suppress only their physical mutational appearances.Director George Marshall parodies and satirizes the classic Western with its stereotypical elements - a lawless Western town with a saloon and a sheriff, with three saloon/musical numbers! The film""s well-paced, brisk screenplay by Felix Jackson, Gertrude Purcell and Henry Myers was based on Jackson""s original screen story, suggested by Max Brand""s novel of the same name.She shuffled over to a wooden able across from where her father""s gruff boozing companion Marthy Owens (Marie Dressler in a comeback role) sat, and dropped her suitcase onto the floor...It is Walpurgis Night, the night of evil Nosferatu! On this night, Madame, the doors, they are barred, and to the Virgin we pray.]Armies of Slaves Performed Menial Work for the Corrupt Roman Republic:In the year 73 BC during the reign of the all-powerful, corrupt, stagnant and declining Roman Republic, the title character Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) was introduced as a life-long slave - a "proud, rebellious son" who was sold at age 13 to "living death" working under bondage in the Libyan mining pits located in the conquered Greek province of Thrace.